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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Featured Topic: CICS & WebSphere - Take Our Poll: Do you use Web-enabling CICS applications? - Discussion Forums: Migrating from IMS/DC to CICS? - Search390 Tips Contest: Win a Garmin eMap GPS! - The Missing Link: Hacker claims Web worm meant to combat sexism ___________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LEAD STORY MAINFRAME SKILLS, PAY AT A PREMIUM | News: Computerworld Got Cobol? Lucky you. Mainframe shipments are on the rise and as a result data center workers with Cobol, CICS and other big-iron skills are in big demand. Some companies are even offering 10% to 15% bonuses to new hires with mainframe skills. >> CLICK for the story: http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68764,00.html For more information, check out Best Web Links on programming at http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1453,00.html and, these on Careers and Training at http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1463,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OTHER HEADLINES The headlines below and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ IBM, MICROSOFT CLASH OVER .NET AND JAVA | News: ZDNet Web services evangelists duke it out once again over which technology is better at building applications -- Java or .NET. SUN TO GO AFTER RED HAT'S JUGULAR IN LINUX-INTEL MARKET | News: CRN Sun is making Red Hat a little hot under the collar. The company, which maintains it will continue to develop its own Solaris Unix operating system as it preps its own Linux OS, will ship a series of general-purpose, x86 servers running Sun's Linux during the early part of the second half of 2002, executives said on Monday. MILLS UNPLUGGED: 'TECHNOLOGY IS A MEANS TO AN END' | News: ZDNet IBM Senior Vice President Steve Mills says that a company's bottom line ranks above all else and that integration and collaboration technologies--especially those from IBM--are a means to that end. MIDRANGE SECURITY SOFTWARE VENDORS ATTRACT VENTURE CAPITAL | News: The Four Hundred Two prominent security-software providers in the iSeries marketplace recently completed rounds of funding totaling $15 million, a positive indication that some believe companies will be increasing IT security expenditures. ___________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Special Training Offer: 30% off - The Linux Operating Systems ** ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn all about Linux with this introductory course. It highlights those aspects that make Linux an innovative operating system, and provides some commonly used Unix skills and "tricks". 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Let the resources in this Featured Topic help you decide. >> CLICK for the full Featured Topic: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci757728,00.html >> CLICK for other Featured Topics: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopics/0,290043,sid10,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TAKE OUR POLL | search390 Are you currently using Web-enabling CICS applications such as Web Support and CICS TS? >> CLICK to post your response: http://search390.techtarget.com/poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390 DISCUSSION FORUMS | Developer Search390 member "IMS2CICS" recently posted the following in the Developer forum and needs your help: "Can you provide some tips for migrating an online application from IMS/DC to CICS?" Think you know the answer? If so, please share your thoughts and suggestions. Or, check out what responses this post has already received. Click to join this discussion: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/462!viewtype=convDate&skip=&expand= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390 TIPS CONTEST | Win a Garmin eMap GPS! Here's your chance to win a Garmin eMap GPS. With the eMap, no matter if you are in your car or hiking in the mountains, you are never alone. To become eligible to win the free gift, simply share the little tips and tricks that help you do your job faster. If you submit the tip that receives the highest user rating, you win. Click here for more info: http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid10_prz796122_cts796119,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THE MISSING LINK | Hacker claims Web worm meant to combat sexism Is this what the Spice Girls meant by "girl power"? A 17-year-old Dutch girl, who claims to have bred the "Sharpei" worm to nip Microsoft's .NET Web services platform, said she did it to show that women can write viruses too. She told security firm Sophos that she didn't want the worm to do any damage, but she did want it to spread a message -- that cyberspace isn't just a man's world. I am woman, hear me hack? Source: Reuters http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020305/tc_nm/tech_feminist_dc_4 ___________________________________________________________ *********************SEARCH390 CONTACTS********************* BJ RAMA, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your original articles and best practices. ROBYN LORUSSO, Assistant Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your white papers and Best Web Links. KATE EVANS-CORREIA, Senior News Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Send in your news, press releases and poll ideas. 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